“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.”

“Men's best successes come after their disappointments.”

“Each book has a secret history of ways and means.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”

“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.”

“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”